If you need to reimage a TiVo for hard drive repair or storage upgrade:

Turn-key solutions are available from a sponsor of this forum, DVRUpgrade

If you want to go the do-it-yourself route, here is your best bet: drop by #tivo on EFnet. Check the topic for instructions, or just ask for what you are looking for. Be patient. If someone has it, they'll respond, eventually.

Please also use this thread to post requests for any images I can't point you to.

Went to EFNet and put in #tivo for the chatroom and my name in the nickname and it wouldn't connect. I'm looking for a image to a TCD540040. I bought this unit at a yard sale and would like to get it working.

Hey finding Tivo images seems to be sort of a hassle. Your primary FTP is offline and the backup (gotdns.org) didn't have a SVR-2000 image.

I had one from like 6 years ago but it was the old Tivo software with no native support for the NIC. So instead of performing the hackery required to get the ancient image working over the network (no landline), I was able to do a "Clear and Reset Everything" on the drive I was replacing and create a brand new image. Thankfully I was only replacing it due to excessive noise; a full crash would have left me with a whole set of annoyances.

Anyway, that's my tale of woe, and in the spirit of helping others out who are in similar situations (do a search for SVR-2000 on these forums and check out how many people have needed images), I have hosted a copy of the Tivo 3.0 software for Sony SVR-2000s at:

It has been tested and works fine for me. Made with mfstools v2 if that's important.

Delete my post, ban me, sue me, whatever, just let it be known that the above link is very fast and will work for a very long time so take it if you need it and tell others who need it. I suggest the people who run the FTPs from this thread grab it as well. Stan had one in his old thread apparently but a PM went answered.

Finally, the part of the post that won't get deleted, you can email discore [@] gmail [.] com and I'll send you the link within a couple days or so (no fancy autoreplies unfortunately).

hmm so if I added a drive to my series 2 and then took that drive away and now the original drive won't work, can I just reinstall the original disk image?

If you added a drive to your Series2, then the two drives become 'married' meaning that one will not work without the other without additional modifications being made.

So, the answer to your question is 'yes' - you would need to reinstall your original disk image onto the original drive; presumably, you made your backup using MFStools, yes? If so, use the MFStools on this boot CD to restore the image onto the drive of your choice (but first you should run full manufacturer's diagnostics on the target drive to ensure that it is OK).

I made a backup using the MFSTools boot disc, but I don't think it worked. I did download instantcake-tcd540040-std.iso though, can I use that? Noob question: how do I load the disc image onto the original drive exactly?

I made a backup using the MFSTools boot disc, but I don't think it worked. I did download instantcake-tcd540040-std.iso though, can I use that? Noob question: how do I load the disc image onto the original drive exactly?

Is that what you have, a TCD540 unit? Did you follow the instructions in the README (also attached to your order)?

Yes, you can use the working 500GB drive to make an image for a smaller drive. Just include the "s" option in the backup part of the operation. I have done it myself before, to an original capacity drive even.

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Series 2 234 Hr Lifetime.
Window XP and Ubuntu Linux on my PCs.
Watching more and more in HD direct now.

Had I of known that getting a replacement image would be so hard for a linux device, I would have made my own backup image before buying a tivo to repair a customer's computer (customer's computer had a nearly dead drive)

I can confirm, both FTPs and IRC are not apparently viable..

I tried FTP first.. bad account on the first server and no response from the second...

Next came IRC... real client and web based, both... no !image trigger... I guess there's no DCC transfers there lately?

Having satisfied the requirements I tried the additional email address and still have no response... I am still in the IRC channels as I type this... dead....

I'll post back if there are any changes...

Good luck to everyone else looking for an image... I will next ask some of my geekier friends to make images of their own series 2 units to send...